I’ve probably said this before, but there are so many videos on social media flipping through perfect and beautiful sketchbooks, and that’s all very relaxing to watch, but my sketchbooks are a clusterbourach of discombobulation, especially the older stuff. That’s fine, there are all sorts of ways of filling a book, and although I have some books with themes, or limits on materials, I quite like rooting through the clusterbourachs to see what jumps out at me.
Today I found a very old page that I think was some sort of image transfer, but not a gel plate one. Obviously I didn’t make notes on the page, and probably decided it wasn’t good enough. Today I looked at it and thought it was interesting enough to paint from.
Here’s the sketch that emerged, and it doesn’t look anything like the reference, and I like that. It’s too late in the day to get the gel plate out, but this sketch might work as a charcoal tracing image transfer, which is a nice loop considering how the original page was created.
I’m in the mood for weird faces today.
Tile the morn,
Suzanne
180/200
Thrummie Bizzum 
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